Frank Sinatra, Natalie Cole, Radio Jones sing of it, Shakespeare bards it, Dickinson escoffiers it: the topic is dust. Yes, dust. Glorious dust. I cannot get away from this theme of sweeping and cleaning. I am like Monica on Friends. EXTREMELY CHARGED DUST, VALIANT DUST: QUINTESSENTIAL DUST UP AT THE POETRY SLOW DOWN, A HOE DOWN OF ASTROCHEM MIXING IT UP –THE SCIENTISTS’ DOWN LOW, POETS’ LOW DOWN SECRETS OF STARDUST IN POETRY DUST RAGS, from Shakespeare’s kings and princes and nieces to...
“Sometimes I lie awake at night at and ask, Where have I gone wrong? Then a voice says to me, this is going to take more than one night.”—Charles Schulz, Peanuts. Do you remember Peanuts’ “I love mankind—it’s people I can’t stand?” On March 18, 1958, Thomas Merton, former bad boy, play boy, earnest urban dude, despair of his guardian, and now Trappist monk, finds himself in a shopping center: “I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people,...
Welcome to our Poetry Slow Down, KRXA 504AM, Think for Yourself Radio, produced by Sara Hughes, I’m your host Professor Barbara Mossberg, all because of the life of Senator William Fulbright: How is it that in going away, from all we know, we learn what we really do know; how experiencing ourselves as strange and foreign, learning that we who are know it alls–that’s why we got to go, after all–, don’t know it all, at all, and become both worldly in our newfound humbling experience...
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Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.—Einstein I’m trying to find something true that can’t be expressed by math.—J.D. Roberts Can haiku save the day? We know sonnets can. It’s all about the math. It’s all about the equals sign, the existential triumph of it, the metaphor. We’ll hear about The Hunt for the Wilder People(pronounced will-deer), haiku, the Sphinx, Einstein, Shakespeare, lively knock-your-socks-off-stop-breathing...
A consideration of what we consider news, and what’s at stake, for our own survival and for society at large. In which we take up the fate of earth and all life (including spiders—and you’ll be glad) (you truly will) in poems by William Carlos Williams, coming soon to a neighborhood near you in Paterson, Mary Oliver, James Wright, Theodore Roethke, Wendell Berry, Cynthia Wolloch, Elizabeth Bishop, Mark Doty, Robert Burns, Walt Whitman, Stanley Kunitz, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Lux,...
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Topics: Children in art -- Exhibitions, Ashcan school of art -- Exhibitions, Art, American -- 20th century...
Top o the morning to you, Poetry community! Post-Valentines, in the thick of birthdays of civic leaders, we’re slowing down for our Poetry Slow Down, I’m your host Professor Barbara Mossberg, with our West Coast Producer Zappa Johns, broadcasting live from the tree house, Eugene, Oregon. We’ve got good news today—we need it—in between the headline, deadline, late-breaking, heart-breaking news, we’ve got heart-lines, heart-making, heart-shaking, a slew of poems from our amazing next...
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In our first "Think" episode, Tim and I talk about one of Tim's favorite books: "Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food", and its controversial author, Wendell Berry.
Poetry slow down, screech! Break, for heart-breaking heart-making heart-shaking news without which “men die miserably every day.” Hello, RadioMonterey.com, this is your host Professor Barbara Mossberg, with producer Sara Hughes, and we’re taking to heart, our heart’s aroused, by William Carlos Williams’ “my heart rouses thinking to being you news that concerns you and many men.” He says that it is difficult to get the news from difficult and despised poems, yet “men die...
POETRY SLOW DOWN KRXA 540AM Dr. Barbara Mossberg Produced by Sara Hughes April 13, 2014 © Barbara Mossberg 2014 GET YOUR GLOVES ON—NO, NO, NOT BOXING, IT’S AN ENGAGEMENT OF THE MIND, TIME TO GET ON YOUR KNEES AND DIG, AND WORK THAT SOIL, WE’RE TALKING METAPHOR OF COURSE, GARDENING, AND POEMS THEREOF, WITH ME YOUR HOST PROFESSOR BARBARA MOSSBERG—we’ll ponder the tremendous connections among poetry and poets, gardens, weeds, wilderness, in the toil of psychic soil, tilling human...
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”―Thornton Wilder “Wonderful to be here”—Walt Whitman That’s Thornton Wilder and Walt Whitman, and this is Professor Barbara Mossberg, with Producer Zappa Johns, and you’re at HERE FOR THE PRESENT, for the Poetry Slow Down, the news you need, the news you heed, the news without which men die miserably every day—a good shoe—if the show fits, hear it! : Perhaps Universe, in this...
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What does civic engagement look like in 2016? Luke Pruett sits down with Karl to discuss this as well as community, modern day transience, Wendell Berry, disc golf, and the Memphis Grizzlies. Andrew suggests “This Side of Paradise” by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the band The Native Sibling.
THE POETRY SLOW DOWN KRXA 540AM Dr. Barbara Mossberg Produced by Sara Hughes April 27, 2014 © Barbara Mossberg 2014 APRIL IS THE CRUELEST MONTH . . . STIRRING DULL ROOTS OUT OF THE SPRING RAIN . .THAT APRIL! LOCK THE DOOR! BUT WHO CAN STOP THE RAIN? AND WHO WOULD WANT TO? Ahoy Pluviophiles! Aka Poetry Slow Down!, I’m singing in the rain, heralded by T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland” and Emily Dickinson’s “Dear March,” and Credence Clearwater Revival, we are wrapping up April with...
This is the story of how we begin to remember . . . These are the days of miracle and wonder (Paul Simon): MAKE IT NEW (Ezra Pound): Do we make endings only to have beginnings? Are we like a poem, earth with a new morning every day? Is the New Year a first line of our lives’ next stanza? Our show today is on how we human beings totally make up endings like December 31, as the end of the year, just so we can have new beginnings, because we love beginnings, the fresh start, the new day,...
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Rebel Yell 20170412 213: Keith Preston, Attack the System, Pt II This is Rebel Yell – a Southern Nationalist podcast of the Alt-Right. I'm your host Musonius Rufus. Joining me are my cohosts Mencken's Ghost and Ryan McMahon. For our 64th episode of Rebel Yell, Mencken's Ghost and I speak with Keith Preston of Attack the System. If you like Rebel Yell's cover art, "The Confederate Outlaw Josie Wales", then be sure you patron the artist Mark Farley. Thanks goys! Rebel Yell Bitcoin:...
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News/Business. Shepard Smith. Analysis and interpretation of the day's lead stories. New. (CC)
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The Rev. Sammie Evans preaches to the Stone Church of Willow Glen from Psalm 23, and Acts 9:36-43. She begins with a quote from “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front” by poet Wendell Berry and contrasts the “ways of the World” with the “ways of God’s Kingdom.”
Topics: PC(USA), Presbyterian, Stone Church of Willow Glen, Christian, Sermon
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LAURA DUNN is a filmmaker based in Austin Texas who directed a documentary called THE UNFORESEEN, as well as a more recent documentary which is the focus of our conversation: LOOK & SEE: A PORTRAIT OF WENDELL BERRY. The film is available on Netflix and I can't recommend it enough. Laura and Wendell have a similar approach to their work, in that they are not putting themselves out there as a personality to shine brighter than the content of the work itself. Look & See isn't merely a...
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Ariel Berman December 19, 2009 Alana Kumbier Alana talks with farmer and community organizer Ariel Berman about his farm education and the Access to Agriculture project. Ariel cultivates a vegetable farm in Concord, Massachusetts with fellow-farmer Laura Sackton. He also works to remove physical and architectural barriers that hinder people from picking or growing their own wholesome food. Listen Episode 4: Farm Living Image Gallery View imagesimage #2 image #3 image #4 image #5 image #6...
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“Earth Day Mountaintops” As part of our Earth Day celebration, we’ll look at the land ethic of Wendell Berry and invite consideration of how our UU vision of the interdependent web calls us to care for our home. – ERS
Topics: Earth Day, mountaintop mining, Wendel Berry
Live from Butterfly Town, USA. We’re talking about butterflies today, in honor of their incredible desire and ability to migrate thousands of miles—straight here. The haven Monarch butterflies come home to is Pacific Grove, where I’m Poet in Residence, and in this role I was asked this week to recite a poem and blessing at the annual event for the Monarch Sanctuary as the butterflies once again begin to return. Local citizens have roused to care for their habitat; with about fifty...
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Premier Free Radical Scavenge As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn't go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Wendell Berry
Topics: Random, thinking, wealth, poverty, jobs, employment, unemployment, basic income, parenting,...
THE POETRY SLOW DOWN KRXA 540AM Dr. Barbara Mossberg Produced by Sara Hughes February 9, 2014 © Barbara Mossberg 2014 THE SHENANIGANS OF DESIRE: LOVE’S PLAY BOOK, A COOK BOOK FOR FEASTING ON YOUR LIFE (IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE PLAY ON, SO PLAY ON LOVE OF FOOD, IF LOVE OF FOOD BE A LOVE OF LANGUAGE ABOUT DESIRE, IF POETRY BE A LOVE OF WORDS ON FOOD AND LOVE) February 9 and 16! Poems today to whet your appetite for Valentine’s pre and post: Parts One: Two suspenseful narratives...
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The Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures include some of the foremost voices on a new economics. Farmer, poet, essayist Wendell Berry speaks about what links us to a home place and how that connection results in a "husbandry" that benefits people, land, and community. Learn more about the Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures here.
Topics: agriculture, environment, farming, community, Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
I TOOK my power in my hand And went against the world; ’T was not so much as David had, But I was twice as bold. I aimed my pebble, but myself Was all the one that fell. Was it Goliath was too large, Or only I too small? (Emily Dickinson) The poetry shoe of poetic feet in the headline news, late-breaking, fate-making, heart-breaking, heart-shaking, the news of “despised” and “difficult” poems “without which men die miserably every day” (Dr. William Carlos Williams). The news this...
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Saving the Earth From Ourselves News/Business. (2013) Kumi Naidoo, international executive director of Greenpeace. (CC) (Stereo)
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In Memorium, Antonina Rumore Clarke, June 13 1920-Nov 23-24 2010.Music: Amazing Grace Camp Granada RESPECT I Will Survive verb verb: grace; 3rd person present: graces; past tense: graced; past participle: graced; gerund or present participle: gracing 1.1.
do honor or credit to (someone or something) by one’s presence.” 2.synony 3.dignify, distinguish, honor, favor Her Grace is all she has—
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From October, 2013: “Today when persimmons ripen,” as Jane Hirshfield begins us, we’re slowing down—you know you move too fast—in this slowed time of year, where trees are strutting their structural moxie, revealed when their leaves take flight, sing the song of gravity, and reveal the gold orange and red and yellow reality in them all along, a way that poetry slows us down to express the fall foliage colors, the way a poem can turn us into what we have been all along—as Rumi puts...
The summer months are the perfect time to consider simpler ways of living, slowing down to remember and enjoy what matters most to us and connect with the beauty of the earth. With wisdom by our transcendentalist ancestor Henry David Thoreau and contemporary farmer-poet Wendell Berry, come join us for a service to contemplate how to bring intentional simplicity into the rush of our lives, this summer and throughout the year.
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Saving the Earth From Ourselves News/Business. (2013) Kumi Naidoo, international executive director of Greenpeace. (CC) (Stereo)
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AVN's regular roundup of news stories and upcoming events. In this edition, Arlington gets a new County Manager, celebrates the legacy of a great educator, and of course, Arlington Reads.
Topics: Virginia, Arlington County, ATV, Arlington TV, Government Access TV, Community Media, PEG, Youtube,...
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”― Thornton Wilder “Wonderful to be here”—Walt Whitman POEMS PRESENT PRESENCE AS GIFT–Dedicated to the Pacific Grove Poetry Collective, a treasure—A SHOW IN WHICH WE CONSIDER THE WISDOM OF RAMONA THE PEST, BEVERLY CLEARY’S FOUR-YEAR-OLD, TWELVE-YEAR -OLD EMILY IN THORNTON WILDER’S OUR TOWN, AND LIFE’S LESSONS TO DR. B WHEN WE DON’T PAY ATTENTION, WITH POET’S RX FOR...
Ears of our ears are opened! Thank you mr. e. e. cummings, you ARE indeed alive again today and so are we,—slowing down for our Poetry Slow Down, I am your host Professor Barbara Mossberg, alive again today, on the theme of resurrection—life rising again—when it was thought it was over—done with—gone for good—or bad—hopeless—and up springs against all the odds and expectations, life! The title of our show today Practicing Resurrection is from a line by a farmer poet, Wendell...
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Drew Warkentin and I met in a design group on Slack. Someone I knew was looking for a UX designer and Drew was recommended. When I asked to interview him for Designers Drink, he didn’t hesitate to say yes. (I’m always surprised when people say yes.) This episode had several unfortunate turns, and I almost gave up on it. First, I accidentally deleted the first half of my track. After successfully re-recording all the bits I could remember and making up the ones I didn’t, I accidentally...
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Wendell Berry: The Natural World Andrew Marr with Wendell Berry, Paul Kingsnorth and Kate Raworth.
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From September 27, 2015: Finally I saw that worrying had come to nothing. And gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.—Mary Oliver (from Swan) Mary Oliver knows worry. Shakespeare knows worry. You know worry. I know worry. It’s what we’re made of, what distinguishes us from trees or chipmunks or glorious elk or owls or stars or salamanders. We’re worriers. Own it. But we’re also problem solvers, so we try to talk ourselves out of things, through...
Selections from a Sunday Morning Worship Service for The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman. PRAYER AND MEDITATION READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN From the Book of Matthew From "What Are People For?" by Wendell Berry SERMON "Given Life to Find Its Meaning" by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman CLOSING WORDS Liturgist: David Bessey Please note: All sermons are copyrighted by the author. For more information about The Unitarian...
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In both the Scriptures and the fiction of Wendell Berry, remembering is the key to the covenant relationships which form real community.
Just to be held by the ocean
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It is a total waking up. Why should we grieve that we have been sleeping?
It does not matter how long we have been unconscious. We are groggy, but let the guilt go.
Feel the motions of tenderness around you,
the buoyancy.–Rumi BUOYANCY PHYSICS Lovers of splash and dash, panache and get-go! Poetry on pools and splash, swimming and mermaids, in support of the project to restore a lifesaving community swimming pool of yore,...
“Today when persimmons ripen,” as Jane Hirshfield begins us, we’re slowing down—you know you move too fast—in this slowed time of year, where trees are strutting their structural moxie, revealed when their leaves take flight, sing the song of gravity, and reveal the gold orange and red and yellow reality in them all along, a way that poetry slows us down to express the fall foliage colors, the way a poem can turn us into what we have been all along—as Rumi puts this idea, “lovers...
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Topics: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --...
THE POETRY SLOW DOWN KRXA 540AM Dr. Barbara Mossberg Produced by Sara Hughes March 23, 2014 c Barbara Mossberg 2014 “Be joyful because it is humanly possible.” ― Wendell Berry THE IMPEDED STREAM IS THE ONE THAT SINGS, AND WINE IS BEST FROM STRESSED GRAPE VINES ON FINDING OURSELVES IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR LIVES: DANTE AND THE ETHNOPOETRY OF REFLECTION WITH THE TUPELO 30-30 PROJECT, including poems by Dante, Mary Jo Bang, Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry, Tupelo poets, Chrissy Williams, W.H. Davies,...
On this May day, as our on-air show live today from Helsinki celebrates the happiness in the hear and now, with ecopoetry, an anniversary show of poems of juice shared on this show over five years, no, six, no, seven, eight. A JUICY SHOW We’re going to hear how poets define the juice from Robert Herrick, and Gerald Manley Hopkins (“all this juice and all this joy”) to Shakespeare to Pablo Neruda to Gerald Stern to Winston Churchill, with mojo moxie displayed in poems from Emily Dickinson,...
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